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But stay - methinks her lays I hear , So smooth ! so sweet ! so deep ! so clear ! No , ' tis not her voice , I find , 70 ' Tis but the echo stays behind . Some meditate ambition's brow , And the black gulf that gapes below : Some peep ...
But stay - methinks her lays I hear , So smooth ! so sweet ! so deep ! so clear ! No , ' tis not her voice , I find , 70 ' Tis but the echo stays behind . Some meditate ambition's brow , And the black gulf that gapes below : Some peep ...
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100 50 Ne'er echoing with the woodman's stroke , The trumpet's clangours pierce my ear , Where never human art appear'd , A thousand widows ' shrieks I hear , Nor ev'n one straw - roof'd cot was rear'd , 30 Give me another horse , I cry ...
100 50 Ne'er echoing with the woodman's stroke , The trumpet's clangours pierce my ear , Where never human art appear'd , A thousand widows ' shrieks I hear , Nor ev'n one straw - roof'd cot was rear'd , 30 Give me another horse , I cry ...
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90 seem 95 100 105 IIO To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel , and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance , where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th ...
90 seem 95 100 105 IIO To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel , and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance , where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th ...
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Contents
MATTHEW PRIOR I | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
Alma or The Progress of The Mind Canto I | 15 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century |
| Editor | Cecil Albert Moore |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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